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Sheep and Wool in medieval Milton Abbas
©Bryan Phillips Aug 2024 Take a look at our new page on this website devoted to sheep on the Milton Abbey monastery’s manors. This is part of our exploration of life as a peasant worker in Milton Abbas when wages … Continue reading
Posted in farming, landscape, local history, Medieval history, Milton Abbey
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Will of Edward Damer, 1703
©Bryan Phillips Jul 2024 Wills and inventories are a marvellous source of information for local and family historians. Our super transcriber Shirley Chick has just completed the will of Edward Damer 1703. This gives a wealth of information on the … Continue reading
Terry-Thomas
©Bryan Phillips Jul 2024 At last! We can be fairly sure that Terry-Thomas did have a house in Milton Abbas. See our blog. So that is one mystery solved, at least partly, because we do not yet know which property … Continue reading
Posted in books, local history, Milton Abbas
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The Lives of Ordinary People
©Bryan Phillips Jun 2024 A recent article by Ruth Goodman in Who Do You Think You are? July 2024 p20 asks why the educational curriculum for history is full of Hitler, Napoleon, and Britain’s kings and queens. Where are the … Continue reading
Drowning of William Ridout in Bournemouth
©Bryan Phillips June 2024 The Ridout or Rideout family had been living in Milton Abbas for at least 150 years and occur frequently in our Records including prison admission, Overseers of the Poor, Settlement Examinations, when a young Willian Ridout … Continue reading
D-Day and the 1939 Register
©Bryan Phillips May 2024 With the 80th anniversary of D-Day the Milton Abbas Local History Group have the resources to track the people involved from Milton Abbas. We have Why not share your findings with us? Contact us.
Posted in document, local history, Milton Abbas, records, transcription, WW2
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One Place Studies
©Bryan Phillips May 2024 If you have an ancestor who came from Milton Abbas at any time in the past going as far back as 1317 then you are in luck! We have already done the research that you need … Continue reading
Lyscombe
©Bryan Phillips Apr 2024 Another phase in the history of Lyscombe has just opened up – literally. 335 hectares of chalk downland has been purchased by, and will be managed for rewilding by Dorset Wildlife Trust. For details see their … Continue reading
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The Sale of Hilton manor to Lord Milton 1784
© Bryan Phillips Apr 2024 We have obtained some high resolution images of the deed of sale of the village of Hilton to Lord Milton. This was dated 15 May 1784, and there are twenty large pages of it. One … Continue reading
Milton Abbas Local History Group, Dorset, UK 